{"id":10930,"date":"2021-09-28T19:50:46","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/?p=10930"},"modified":"2021-09-28T19:50:46","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T19:50:46","slug":"center-director-awarded-translation-studies-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/news\/center-director-awarded-translation-studies-grants\/","title":{"rendered":"Center director awarded translation studies grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/people\/richard-watt\/\">Richard Watts<\/a>, faculty director of the Center and associate professor in French and Italian Studies, was recently awarded two grants for translation studies.<\/p>\n<p>The first grant constitutes the third year of support from the Simpson Center for the Humanities at UW for the activities of the Translation Studies Hub, a project Watts co-directs with Heekyoung Cho (associate professor in Asian Languages and Literature) and Michael Biggins (Slavic, Baltic and East European studies librarian and affiliate professor in Slavic Languages and Literatures).<\/p>\n<p>The Translation Studies Hub organizes monthly colloquia and an annual keynote address, offers a team-taught graduate seminar,\u00a0<em>Translation Across\u00a0the Disciplines<\/em>, in which\u00a0Canadian (and especially Qu\u00e9becois) translation-studies scholars play an important role, and is developing a Graduate Certificate in Translation Studies.<\/p>\n<p>Rich also received a grant from the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment in July 2021 to complete a translation of Elis\u00e9e Reclus\u2019s\u00a0<em>L\u2019Histoire d&#8217;un ruisseau<\/em>\u00a0(1869; <em>The Story of a Stream<\/em>), of which he has published an initial chapter in\u00a0<em>Michigan Quarterly Review<\/em>\u00a0(Spring 2020). Directly and indirectly, these grants support the Canadian Studies Center\u2019s investment in the recognition and study of Canada\u2019s official bilingualism and unofficial multilingualism (represented by the many\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www12.statcan.gc.ca\/census-recensement\/2016\/as-sa\/98-200-x\/2016022\/98-200-x2016022-eng.cfm\">First Nation, M\u00e9tis, and Inuit languages spoken in Canada<\/a>, of which the Center regular teaches several) and the crucial role of translation in maintaining communication across such a diversity of languages. A recent example of the relevance of translation to the Center\u2019s activities comes in the form of a story on our program in the Inuktitut language that appeared in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.itk.ca\/inuktitut-126\/\"><em>Inuktitut Magazine<\/em><\/a>\u00a0(Spring 2019), which appeared in four separate versions: one in English, one in French (another language\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/jsis.washington.edu\/canada\/funding\/flas\/\">whose study the Center supports<\/a>), and two in Inuktitut, the first in romanized script and the second in syllabics!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Richard Watts, faculty director of the Center and associate professor in French and Italian Studies, was recently awarded two grants for translation studies. 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